Kenneth de Kok

Biographical info

Kenneth de Kok was born in Johannesburg in 1949 and spent his boyhood in Stilfontein, a gold-mining town in the Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He went to boarding school in Kimberley and after conscription, studied law and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked in Zululand, but left South Africa in 1971 to avoid further military service. He lived in the UK, working for the London Underground and then managed a...